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A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.

Obscenely; lewdly.

Obscenity; lewdness.

A belt. See Baldric.

Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry." Steele.

Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.] It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. Chaucer.

A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.

A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

lder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.

To expose in a cart by way of punishment. She chuckled when a bawd was carted. Prior.

A pimp; also, a bawd. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer. Thou art the pander to her dishonor. Shak.

a procurer; a pimp; a bawd. Addison.

A bawd; a prostitute. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

t. She shall be called his wench or his leman. Chaucer. It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches. Spectator.